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1 2 3 4 9 ~ ~ 10 ~ w z 11 12 22 23 24 25 MLLYP MORRIS 1HCORpORATBD 1984 CCRPMATE AFFAIRS WORLD CCXP'BRSLiCS S'Y8 BROOK, 1i3W YORK SEP'PEIlSSR 12,19®4 - LO!lCSBt3S MR. STANLEY S. SCOTT s ?haak you very asTch, following up on our earlier discussion, partnerships we're going to add another e1ement in our luncheon session to in- clude Pross and Public Policy. Ne're really demonstrating that old saying, any fri.nd of yours is a friend of aine, anCd vice versa, and if it doesn't work that way either in life or in business we're atl in deep trouble. DTone of us here are looking for or are pedd- ~ '~ 1.ing favors, but all of us I think are looking for better v i ~. z understanding. To coin a clichd what are friends for? Mike ~ F ~ Arish our Director of Public Affairs in Phillip Morris, U.S.A. ( ~ has had quite a lot of experience dealing with public policy ~ as weli as in constituency building. So Mike, why don't ycu 0 z_ 2 come up here and keep it going for us? 0 w M. Mi SB e yhank you. One o f the th ings I think we've ali realized from this mornings discussion is that there is a certain linkage between what we do in public affairs and government relations and the State Legislators, local officials and Federal representatives with whom a+hich we interact. I think any consumer products ccmpany like our own is not serving ourselves well if it dcres not build con- stituencies in the State Legislatures, and on the local level also. we've beard this morning from several Mayors, we heard

CI 2 3 4 22 23 24 25 froa the Speaker of the California Staite Assembly and now .+a're going to swing baak towards the .east coast. To givo us his views on the present public policy and this is by no oeass to indicate that this is the only view but certainly soom.one that I have a great deal of respect for because of what he has done, it is sy honor to present to you this afternoon the President of the Seaate of the Co®omwsalth of Massachusetts. s"be Bonorabie William Bnlger, Senator Bulger. (ABpLAiT98) HONORABLS WILLIAM BIIIaBRr Thank you very much, rir. Scott, ltike Irish and friends, it's a great pleasure to be hers with all of you today. I've enjoyed being here during the morning and especiaily catching some of the great talks that have been going on. I come from south Boston iKase. we, I've been in the legislature, can I teli you a little bit 2bout myself, Wiliie Brown did that. (LAUGMBR)as he overcame his shyness (LAUt1ESTliR), he came out of his shell. I'm going to take some lessons from that fellow let me tell you. Be really, that was a thrill I have of course bsen an admirer of his from 3,000 miles away and today was really the very f irst day t1s t I had had an opportunity to hear him first lsaad, it was worth being bare for in and of itself. yor my own part I•ve been in the legislature for about 23 years, I was elected to the Massachusetts House back in 1961 wtdRe still a student at Boston College Law School,

1 2 3 4 22 23 24 25 and I served ten years in the Massacbusetts Honsev, and in 1970 was eleioted to ths 8snete: and in 1978 to tbe Office of President of the Seuate and I've seswvd in the capacity of Senate President for the past sin years and ar up for eleo- t!on avv to sy Senate seat and I think V 11 be re-elected bamuse I's unopposed and in Jaaswry I' i1 be seekinq r.- eltetioa as President of the 8snate and I hope to be re- sleetid tDere. i8en I say elected and I think that tt's itri+ortast that it be coasidered that wbon Willie Brown, speaks to you he speaks to you as someone also has besn elected and I speak to you as somone aiho is elected and therefore, soosone who coses with a certain kind of mandate. The Boston alobe has recently suggested that I should leave, they said the Senate Presidents leadership 2sas been for six years and has now become stale and reactive, it is time for hio to leave. Well, no one elected the Boston Globe, and I submit that I have much more reason to have my i nflnence felt than does it, even though its influence is much larger than my own, and when it suggested my leadership has beeome stale and reactive I would like to urge the Globe to go and look at the six or seven thousand bills ths t are filed during this session and among them they'll find a bill that will demonstrate that the Senate President remains quite imagistative because there is one of the bills which calls fbr the widening of Morrisey Blvd., on which the alobe sits.(LAUGH- T.t9R)

C4 1 And if that bill passes there-,will be no 2 more alcbe, and that's l.aaQination. In my Clfice as Presi- 3 dtrat I follow a long and distinguished line of citizens who 4 have beld that position. Tlere have been 90 Senate Presi- 5 dents in unbroken succession from the year 1780 when the co . 01) 6 ~ co ~ offiae was first heYd by one Thomas Cnshing, a graduate of 7 l Boston Latin School and Harvara, he had served in the 8ouse, g~, he was later Lieutenant Qovenor of the Cosonw.a lth, and he 9 o by tte way Thomas Cusing was one of those who was invited ~ 10 ~ to sign the Declaration of Independence and he said, uo, it's w z 11 o too radical a docusent and be set the tone for all the rest 12 v~i ~ of us thereafter I can tell you. But of my 90 predecessors 13 ~ as President one served as President of the United States, E- 14 1 Calvin Coolidge, two served as Vice-pras., two served in 15 -9 the U.S. Senate, 11 in the Congress, we've had Alayors of ~ 16 z the City of Boston, one was a founder of the Massachusetts ~ 17 ~ Institute of Tea#isology, 1 was the President of Antioch College, U 18 ~ and another Samuel Phillips. Jr., actually established Phillips ~ 19 p Academy at Andover, Mass., which I'm sure you have heard of. ~ 20 So we've had many great people from many great 0 ~ N 21 z professions who have served as Pres#d ent of the Senate. Just ~ 22 a little bit about the job itself. The volume of legislative N Mr 23 b usiness in Massachusetts, is extraordinary because we have ~ N 24 a right of free petition and I'm sure that the volume is be- 25 11 yond the understanding of a large section of'the public.

CS 1 2 3 4 Last year 2100 bills were filed in the Senate, 6900 i.n the Se>use, heariaqs had to be sehedeled for these legislative proposals by 24 legislative coroittees, banks and banking, Cosm.care.and labor, criminal justice, ede- 5 l] .oOtio6, energy, etbiCs-, health care, housing, and on and on 00 I q_ 6~° to dispose of t'he various seasures. The 8ouse during that ~ (0 7 ~ last year conducted 3.59 sessions, the Senate 134 sessions ~ 8 o and rrhile it is impossible to please everybody especially ~ 9 o sme of the more aggressive and the more articulate public ~ 10 w interest groops, so called, I can tell you that both branches z 11 ~ of the Legislatu.re did in fact apply thesselves with dili- 12 ~ game and with competence to fashion laws aimed at the coe.ua z 13 good and the general public interest. F ~ 14 ~ It is unfortunate that the Massachusetts 15 ~ legislature as legislatures generally continues to be the ~ 16 z target really for an unconscionable kind of alisrepresenta- 17 p-> tion spread by the wd1A. Fact and truth are subordlmted w 18 a to portrayal3 that provide a charieature of the realities of ~ 19 p' conscientious legislative efforts. F' 20 Usually the question that's asked to me when w F 21 z I'm back home in Massachusetts about this time when I have 22 23 24 25 invited questions, and I hope to do just that in just a very brief few moments, the question arises, Mr. President, why are you inaccessible to the press? Why do you refuse to talk to representatives of press, radio and television? Let

1 aas respond by saying that tbere are jtut not euough hoars 2 in the day to deal with the large volmMr of r.quests for 3 ial~.ervisws, for oomrsats oA every public issue received by 4 media representatives to be sig"ficaat. I decline to allow 9 rpseif, I deciae to allow th. representatives of the media to preopt all of my tine, and I play no favorites, all are ti0oated alike, none are welcome. (LAt1MeR) My time is taken up io large measure by atten- tion tion to the needs of my constituents and the 8tattrMonse is ~ 10 W, right in my particular district a constituent of the senatorial z. tt district, to legislative analysis, legislative policy, the 12 M necessity of consulting with my legislative colleagues, es- z 13 ~' pecially members of the senate, in addition time must be H. ~ 14 ( allocated to the Govenor, to the 3ecsetariat, other consti- 15 ~' tutional offices and to department heads and agency heads, 16 z so there's very little tim~e left after it all for so~s very ~ 17 p large surpassingly really isiportant obligations that are sine w 18 `~ as both a husband and a father. ~ 19 O Rather it is my experience that stedia repre- F 20 ~ ~ sentatSves, and I thought this out and have jotted down just 21 `' a few notes. The media representatives have no genuine inter- 22 22 I!I est in analysis of public issues. ReadliAe treatment without 23 24 25 deptb is the order of'tAe day, worse t'ban that is the out- iigbt misrepresentation of ones position by partial quotes or by inaccurate statements which create an array of special prob-

C7 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 22 23 24 25 lew for a person who is a presiding o!ficer and who seeks consensus on issues and seeks to avoid that wbiah sakes navs actually a conflict on issues. And I ask you to look at tke practios of ventilating an editorial position by a fisti@ioas attribn- t#.osns to a well informed sowoe. A highly placed legis ta- tive aide, an offioiat high.is the ad.inistration, a person I the Govenor or whoever, each time such persons of course have requested that tbvy not be ideAtified. And t?m of course there is also tbe squalid business of resorting to many people say, a large group holds, and so on and so on. I regard the media as a money making enter- prise having no mandate from the public, having no account- ability to the public or to the or to anyone, and as far as I as able to determine, having no genuine rtons:ittmmnt to a ct responsibly ancd to speak truthfully. And I'd like to if I may the press calls very often upon one, a quote by Thomas Jefferson in.which Thomas Jefferson the man who tIg- TERRUPTIODZ,Z, HON. SBNRY MAZER: Mayor of Milwaukee, I want to tell you I,baUs-:-to leave to leave but I agree with every- thing you've said so far. (IAU(iHTBR) RON. la'ILLrIRIrI BVIQER: You have to ieave? You agree with everything I say Mr. Mayor? Thank you very much. (APPLAUSE) The Mayor has to leave and be agrees with

I 2 3 4 5 CO co6 c.0 ' 7 ~. ~ ~. 9 ~ 4 10 ~ z 11 14 15 22 23 24 25 ewrythiag I say, dear Ood, he 2usa't even beard it all. iy the way. I have siae ch3n idren at bose I's here today bc.ase 11111 1 do anything to get out of the house. (LAVOMR) Maoy of my constitueat:s you )mow they ao.m from a beautiful place in Zrelsad, called Ccnua+.mara, has aay'body bere onrer been to Cts>ssesara? Nobody, oh. you, terrific, you've been there, a beautiful plaae up on the west coast of Ireland, you go there for arthritis and you get it in about ten days. (La4t>OR'f3a) And there's a nice little story told about a farmer and his wife and daughter, they bad to sell the family cow, do you want to bear this silly story it has nothing to do with the subject satter but I like tAe story. The story is simply this that the farmer one morning be realiaed he had to seil tbefaai.iy cow so his, he and his daughter awakened earlier and they yoked up the iitttle ass and cart and they tethered the cow to the back of the cart and off to e;air+ay City they went to sell the cow and in a4lway City they sold the cow for a beautiful price, 40 pounds, oh they were so happy that they had bad such a good sale and back out the road they were coming out you call it the coast DOad out to Cannaara, out to the little town of Canna and along the road they were overtaken by robbers. Yos, riiafiael Irish, robbers in Ireland, dnglish roboers, (LaLlGNTEit) and the robbers took everything and the poor farmer and hAswife

C9 1 2 3 5 22 23 24 25 were standing tbere in the middle of the road, sr farre€s' daughter were standing there in the middle of tbe road, the farmar said to his daughter, dear God %&rt an Y going to tell per mother now we' w i.os t everything? 4hsY' rre taken the asa , and the estrt, t'heY' w stolen the cow, er we've sold the cow averpthiegs is gone, the money is goee what ar I going to tsll your mother? And the daughter said, they didn't get the moasy. Se says, where is the money? She says, I hid it, and where did you hids the money? She says, in ms mouth, and with that she pulled the 40 pounds out of her mouth. Aad the farmsr says, dear God what a pity your mother wasn't hore we'd have saved tto ass and cart as weil. (LAUGHTSR) So actually I mentioned the Boston elobe a few times I don't know how many people have heard of the c3lobe, I'm so far 6ut;;at; tbe Globe, 4t's right in my district but I never speak with them over there they ars .on of uA- sleeping malevolence I ean assure you and it gets so bad that one of the reporters from the alobe asked aee one day going up in the elevator, he said, Mr. President, dossn't it look like a very nice day, I said, never mind your trick questions, ha, ha, we just don't get along at all but I love this qu~tCe from Thomas Jefferson, because the press always eites Jefferson, really the father of the notion of free press here in the United States, add the first Amendment he

cYO 1 2 3 22 23 24 eaui,ilced he believed in it tota i ly as do 1, but h.re' s a letter written by g'hvrrs Jefferson snd I'li only read you a few e>Irerpts from it looosuse it's so little known that he .;wrate tt to a friend of his a John Worvell in the year i901+ after be aeffsrson bad been re-elected President of the tlaited States, and so be had a great deal of experience as you know he had been in.Phiiadeiphia, he had been well yort know what be had dome so he, to your request of my opin- ion of the manner in which a newspaper should be conducted so as to be most useful I should answer, by restraining it to true facts and sound principles only, yet I fear such a paper would find itNw snbscribers. It is a melancholy truth that a suppression of the press could not more completely deprive the nation of its benefits than is done by its abandcmed prostitution to false- hood. Nothing can be believed which is now seen in anews- paper, truth itself becaaes suspicious by being put into that U.ts- poiluted vehicle. The real extent of this state of/inforaa- tion is known only to those who are in situations to confront facts within their knowledge with the lies of the day. I really look with comsiseration over the great body of my .feiloaw citizens who reading newspapers live and die in the 0 41 belief that they have known something of what has been pass- W inq in the world in their time. 25 1 i i Genera 1 facts Jefferson 9008 on, may indeed be